Cardboard box



Dec. 25, 1923.

A. NELSON CARDBOARD BOX Filed 0G17. 25 1921 lullen loz ri'hur Nelson Patented Dec. 25, 1923.

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ARTHUR NELSON, 0F VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA.

CARDBOARD` BOX.

Application led October 25, 1921. VSerial No.v 510,260.

To all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, ARTHUR NELSON, citizen of the Dominion of Canada, residing at Vancouver, in the Province of British Columbia, Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cardboard Boxes, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a cardboard box of that class wherein a rectangular inner container is endwise movable within a corresponding outer casing, and the invention comprises the combination therewith of an endwise movable strip of paper on which a series of pictures or advertising matter is set forth, which, by endwise pulling the strip, are successively displayed through an aperture cut in the outer casing.

The invention is fully described in the following speciiication, reference being made to the drawings by which it is accompanied, in which:

Fig.- l shows the box in perspective during the earlier stages of the operation of the strip.

Fig.V 2 is a vertical section through the box on the plane 2 2, and

F ig. 3 shows the inner box blank as folded.

The inner container may be folded in any convenient manner, but the blank is preferably cut that the faces 2 and the sides may be folded upward from an end 3 and the other end 4 be infolded to close the container.

This container is endwise movable within an open ended rectangular outer casing 5. In one outer face of' 5 is cut a narrow rectangular aperture 6. A strip 7 of paper or similar flexible material of such width that it will freely move through the casing 5, is wrapped endwise around the container- 2, 3, 4, one end being folded inside the other end 8 on the back of the container, which end 8 projects beyond the adjacent end of the box. On this strip 7 from that position of it which is adjacent the aperture 6 to the infolded end, a series of pictures 9 or panels of advertising matter corresponding to the aperture 6 are 4set forth.

As the strip 7 is slowly withdrawn by pulling. on the projecting end 8 while holding the box with the other hand, the pictures 9 will be successively displayed through the aperture 6 of the casing 5.

To prevent the tension on the end 8 from drawing the container 2, 3, 4 endwise out of the casing 5, tabs l0 are left adjacent one end 3 or 4, which tabs, when the container is within thev casing 5, may be held by the finger and thumb against the sides of the casing and hold the container 2, 3, 4 in the casing while the strip 7 is being drawn endwise to successively expose the pictures 9 through the aperture 6.

The essential feature of the invention lies in the relation of the endwise movable strip 7 to a boxlike container and its cover whereby the strip may be endwise drawn through the cover to display successively through an aperture in the cover the pictures or printed matter on strip.

The device may be used in many ways as an attractive selling feature for the contents of the box, or as illustrating or describing the use of the contents.

' Having now particularly described my invention, I hereby declare that what I claim as new and desire to be protected in by Letters Patent, is: y

l. The combination with a container, of a cover therefor having a display aperture and a strip of flexible material passing between the sides of the container and the cover, said strip having a succession of panels of printed matter on the face toward the lcover which when the strip is pulled endwise will be successively displayed through the aperture of the cover.

2. The combination with a container, of an open ended casing within which the container is endwise movable, said casing having a display aperture in its wider side adjacent one end, a strip of flexible material folded around the container to leave a linger engaging end downwardly projecting from the side and end ofthe container opposite the position of the aperture in the casing, the other end of which strip is folded under the downwardly projectingend, the outer face of said strip from above the aperture to the inwardly folded end having printed matter displayed on it in panels approximately corresponding to the display aperture.

3. The combination with a container having tabs projecting from one of its ends, of an open ended casing within ywhich the container is endwise movable and over the ends of which the projecting tabs of the container are foldable, said casing having an aperture in one of its wider sides adjacent one end, and a strip of Aliexible` material folded the projecting end, said strip having a series of panels printed With pictures or the like,

said panels approximately corresponding to the size of the aperture inl the casing,

whereby the container with the folded strips f being inserted in the Casing with the tabs out-f0lded over the sides of the Casing, the strip may be slowly Withdrawn and successively display the panels through the aperture.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

ARTHUR NELSON. 

